whoever prepares himself to study for its own sake, without any alien intention, as I was warned by my great teachers in matters of Torah and Hasidism, included [among them] being my friend, the Hasid and the Rabbi, who is the paragon of the generation, our teachers and Rabbi Israel the Besht, blessed be his memory, let his desirable intention concerning study for its own sake be to attach himself in holiness and purity to the letters, in potentia and in actu, in speech and in thought, [so that he will] link part of [his] [lower] soul, spirit, [higher] soul, Hayah and Yehidah to the holiness of the candle of the commandment and Torah, [to] the enlightening letters, which cause the emanation of the influx of lights and vitality, that are true and eternal.

In the 1760s and early 1770s, he led a formation which, after Salomon Maimon, could be termed a "New Hasidim" or an ecstatic group within Hasidism, (12) From it emerged the Hasidism which is now called Beshtian Hasidism (in Maggid's time, however, nobody had yet regarded Besht as its founder).

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